Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.
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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Revising the Schedule of Duties on Wool and Wool...
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The matter is therefore submitted to the Congress in accordance with the recommendation of the Acting Secretary of State, with a view to its considering whether the President shall be authorized to relinquish to Cuba all right and claim of right of the United States to these wrecks.
This language is so sweeping that it might be made to cover almost 150 articles used in agriculture, which would affect many sections of the present tariff, and lead to the most injurious uncertainty.
Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.
I shall not hesitate to invite the attention of Congress to this fact and to the necessity for action predicated thereon.





